Stock Portfolio: Stock Summary

Central Pet & Garden Company (CENT)

Sector: Consumer/Non-Cyclical > Industry: Personal & Household Products

Central Garden & Pet Company is a supplier in the pet and lawn and garden supplies industries in the United States. The Company operates in two segments: lawn and garden segment and pet segment. Its pet supplies products include products for dogs and cats, including edible bones, healthy edible and non-edible chews, dog and cat food and other accessories; products for birds, small animals and specialty pets, including food, cages and habitats, toys, chews and related accessories; animal and household health and insect control products; products for fish, reptiles and other aquarium-based pets, and information and knowledge resources, and products for horses and livestock. The Company's lawn and garden supplies products include grass seed; wild bird feed, bird feeders, bird houses and other birding accessories; weed, grass, ant and other herbicide, insecticide and pesticide products, and decorative outdoor lifestyle and lighting products and other wood products and holiday lighting.

More at http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/companyProfile?rpc=66&symbol=CENT.O

The idea of "buying" stock of a pet/garden company interested me, and I was just trying to find a stock that would begin my portfolio.

Stock Portfolio: 1st Fiscal Year Summary

Well, here's what I hope to put out:

• History of the ten companies whose stocks I picked and the reason(s) for picking them.
• Summary of my overall portfolio with comments.
• Ratings of each of the individual stocks based on performance.
• Summary of each individual stock with comments.

That's all I can think of for now.

Stock Portfolio: Background

Another one of my crazy projects..... This spawned from a project from Business & Consumer Math, which went something like this:

Your rich aunt has died, leaving you $100,000.  The one condition is that you have to invest it in 10 stocks picked from the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) or the NASDAQ (look that one up...).  You may divide up the invest however you please between the ten stocks.

Originally, this was designed to be an 8-day project, but after school was over, I was interested in how my portfolio would perform. Almost a year later, I'm still doing it.  More to come.......

Weather Study: April Preliminary Results

Since this is already May, I will not bother to go over March at this time. (Check the full summary next year.) Preliminary results show April's average temperatures about 5 °F above average, which is really more amazing than the actual figure sounds. The dry trend continued through April 30th, with 70% of the first 61 days of this study recording zero inches of precipitation.  More to come later....

(Note: As far as I know, averages are based on the 30-year running average from 1971 - 2000)

Weather Study: March 2010 - February 2011

For some reason, this has been an interest since my initial study in 2007 - 2008. So, here I go on this journey again...